Overview:

Junos Space Network Management Platform works with our management applications to simplify and automate management of Juniper’s switching, routing, and security devices. As part of a complete solution, the platform provides broad fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security management (FCAPS) capability, same day support for new devices and Junos OS releases, a task-specific user interface, and northbound APIs for integration with existing network management systems (NMS) or operations/business support systems (OSS/BSS).

The platform helps network operators at enterprises and service providers scale operations, reduce complexity, and enable new applications and services to be brought to market quickly, through multilayered network abstractions, operator-centric automation schemes, and a simple point-and-click UI.

Junos Space Network Management Platform is a unified approach to managing a Juniper network infrastructure and for designing and deploying new services. Its centralized management and orchestration for network devices and services is delivered through a single pane of glass for real-time visibility with single sign-on (SSO).

The platform presents a single abstracted network model that can extend to third parties through feature-rich RESTful APIs. Users can access its functionality through a Web 2.0 GUI that uses persona-based workflows and progressive disclosure to enable operator-centric and scope-specific visibility and control.

Product Description

Junos Space is a comprehensive Network Management Solution that simplifies and automates management of Juniper’s switching, routing, and security devices. Junos Space consists of a network management platform for deep element and FCAPS management, plug-and-play management applications for reducing costs and provisioning new services quickly, and a programmable SDK for network customization. With each of these components working cohesively, Junos Space offers a unified network management and orchestration solution to help you more efficiently manage the New Network.

Network Management Challenges for Service Providers and Enterprises

For service providers, the network is the money-maker. Service providers look to their network to create innovative services that solve business problems and demonstrate the added value they can bring to their customers. These services must always be available to ensure end- subscriber satisfaction, and new services need to be offered frequently as demands and technology change in order to obtain additional revenue streams.

For enterprises, the network is both a strategic and critical corporate asset, where costs have to be controlled. Explosive demand for smart devices, social media applications, and mobility-based services has placed unprecedented pressure on network operators who must provide a compelling experience to increasingly demanding, tech savvy consumers. The unrelenting expectations of highly secure and always-on connectivity and service, coupled with the growing use of cloud environments, make the network increasingly complex to manage and secure.

These networks can be extremely difficult to manage. Networks have been device centric, and each new box brought a different interface and exponential complexity. This made networks hard to manage, closed to innovation, and expensive to operate. With more users and devices than ever before, managing, securing, and delivering new services across the network has meant additional costs and complexities.

Juniper addresses these network challenges with Junos Space to help service providers and enterprise customers maximize their network value and scale solutions, all while reducing complexity. Junos Space is a critical component of Juniper’s SDN strategy as it provides a centralized management plane for a single source of truth and a common management platform for managing and creating applications to meet your specific needs.

Centralized Network Management

With Junos Space, you can simplify and automate the network, improve network agility, and deliver new services quickly—all from a single console. Junos Space is composed of the following three software elements:

Junos Space Network Management Platform – Provides comprehensive FCAPS and element management of Juniper devices which improves operator efficiencies, providing a programmable interface and exposable APIs that enable the development and integration of 3rd party applications

Junos Space Management Applications – Plug-n-play, domain-specific applications to help you provision new services and optimize workflow tasks across thousands of Juniper devices

Junos Space SDK (software development kit) – A programmable network solution that enables you to leverage the connections and intelligence imbedded in the network to create customized management solutions for your specific needs

Automate and Simplify the Network with the Junos Space Network Management Platform

Junos Space Network Management Platform provides comprehensive element management of Juniper devices. No other vendor can manage Juniper devices to the depth and extent of Junos Space. With the Junos Space Network Management Platform, you get broad FCAPS capability, same day support for new devices and Junos releases, a task-specific user interface, and northbound APIs to easily integrate into existing NMS or OSS/BSS deployments.

Junos Space Network Management Platform uses multilayered network abstractions, operator-centric automation schemes, and the simplicity of a point-and-click user interface to help network operators in enterprise and service provider organizations scale their operations, reduce operational complexity, and enable new applications and services to be brought to market quickly.

With this platform, you get a unified approach for managing Juniper infrastructure and designing/deploying new services. Junos Space offers a centralized network management and orchestration solution to manage both network devices and services through a single-pane of glass for real-time visibility. This means one sign on, one user interface, one location to manage routers, switches, and security devices.

Additionally, you scale your network easily with zero-day support of new devices and operating systems with a schema driven data base, without having to upgrade the platform. With Junos Space, you get a highly scalable platform with one cluster (6 nodes running in a fabric configuration) being able to manage the complete network with up to 25,000 devices.

The Junos Space platform is architected from the ground up and is based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It uses industrystandard technologies to provide an enhanced user experience, massive application transparent scale, high availability, and feature velocity. The Junos Space platform provides a single abstracted network model across Juniper’s networking infrastructure, and it extends this to third parties through standards-based Representational State Transfer (RESTful) APIs. The use of a standards-based Device Management Interface (DMI), an XML schema-driven device access API, zero day support for new devices, and a plug-and-play application environment allows inservice device and software upgrades. Users can access the Junos Space platform functionality using a simple Web 2.0 graphical user interface (GUI), which uses persona-based workflows and progressive disclosure to enable operator-centric and scopespecific visibility and control.

Job Management

Junos Space Environment

Scalable and Resilient Runtime Environment
Junos Space is implemented as a scalable fabric of physical or virtual appliances that work collaboratively to help optimize network resiliency, availability, and resource utilization. You can expand or contract the fabric by simply adding or deleting nodes; the system will automatically expand. Each node is fully utilized and the nodes work together to provide automated resource management and a base for higher level applications. The Junos Space Network Management Platform is designed for carrier-grade reliability and availability. The Space fabric provides 1:1 data base redundancy and transparent switchover of UI sessions in case of node failure. And Junos Space is built to be massively scalable. Multiple appliances can be clustered together to form a single management fabric. The Junos Space Network Management Platform is multi-tenant and enables hot-pluggable application deployment and upgrades. Juniper or third-party applications can be added by downloading them onto the platform, with the system automatically deploying the applications throughout the fabric. One of the unique features of the platform is its use of DMI, a schema-driven, programmatic interface to allow for easy management of network devices. DMI makes it possible to import the published schema version and map out all configuration and operational commands for a given device, enabling zero day support and future proofing without having to upgrade or patch the platform.

Enhanced User Experience
Junos Space provides a simple to use Web 2.0 GUI that can be accessed through standard Web browsers. The GUI is designed to simplify the way you interact with the system. It is based on a task-oriented paradigm and uses persona-based workflows to help you do your administrative tasks quickly and efficiently.

Topology: Allows operators to have a broad, topological view of the network including endpoint devices, link information, bottlenecks and failures, and discovered relationships between network elements such as devices and interconnections for devices under management.

Inventory management: Enables visualization storage and management of hardware inventory, including chassisrelated information such as serial numbers, software version, location, and physical subcomponent information such as slots, cards, and ports for all managed devices. Included is automated synchronization between hardware inventory, interface information, and configuration of the device.

Software image management: Provides centralized, network-wide deployment of software images and patches to enable customers to efficiently manage the deployment of Juniper software. Includes the ability to import software images from local or networked file system, flexibly schedule software deployments, stage or deploy software image to one or multiple devices in a single workflow, image verification for accuracy, and use of golden image.

Fault and Performance management: Includes crossvendor enterprise-grade event and performance management, Powered by OpenNMS, for insight and visibility across all network devices.

These platform functions enable users to control any part of their Juniper network when used in conjunction with multiple add-on applications.

Configuration Templates

Audit Log

Key Component of Juniper's SDN Strategy:

Junos Space is a critical component of our SDN strategy as it provides a centralized management plane for a single point-ofcontact into the network and a common management platform for managing and creating applications to meet your specific needs. The Junos Space Network Management Platform and the Junos Space Management Applications are all accessible through a northbound Representational State Transfer (REST)- based Application Programming Interface (API). These open APIs provide core building blocks for new innovation, with no need to build solutions from scratch.

They also provide access to all Junos-based devices, serving as a single entry point that abstracts your network to enable you to manage, monitor, control and gather insight across your entire network infrastructure. This enables operators to use their existing Operations/Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) deployments and tap into the rich functionality of both the Junos Space Network Management Platform and the Management Applications. The programmability, centralization, and customization aspects of Junos Space are important as network providers begin to embrace SDN architectures in their networks.

In-service application and device updates to increase uptime and business continuity

Application fabric

Distributed fabric of IP-connected physical or virtual appliances of pre-assembled, near identical full application stacks, including the complete Junos Space software to enable each appliance to provide full management functionality

End users who are able to access management applications through a single, public virtual IP

Fabric that is deployed in active/active cluster configuration

Instant scale by simply adding or deleting nodes on the fabric

Increased application availability and resilience due to no single point of failure

Resource optimization due to each node being fully utilized and load-balanced with others in the fabric

Includes autodiscovery for improved asset management and network planning

Enables secure notifications and action for each configuration change

Detailed view of all hardware inventory (power supplies, chassis cards, fans, part numbers, etc.) for all managed devices to enable intelligent cataloging for effective system upgrades and modifications

Extending the breadth of the solution are multiple Junos Space Management Applications that optimize network management for various domains. These applications, with their easy-to-use interface, enable you to provision new services across thousands of devices and optimize workflow tasks for specific use cases within the core, edge, data center, campus, security, mobile, and more. The following Junos Space Management Application can easily be added and managed from the Junos Space Network Management Platform:

Junos Space Services Activation Director

Junos Space Services Activation Director ensures error-free service provisioning and monitoring of legacy Carrier-Ethernet and MPLS using a simple interface to design, validate and manage these services. Service providers and enterprises must be able to rapidly provision and offer new MPLS and Carrier Ethernet services across their networks. In order to reduce operational costs and enable quick service rollouts, these network operators need an intelligent provisioning application that facilitates the design, deployment and management of services. Junos Space Services Activation Director is a collection of applications that facilitates automated design and provisioning of L2VPN and L3VPN services, configuration of QoS profiles, validation and monitoring of service performance and management of synchronization.

Facilitates configuration of Quality of Service (QoS) features to provide improved service to certain types of network traffic

Checking end-to-end path connectivity of control plane and the data plane in order to guarantee SLAs

Junos Space Network Director

Junos Space Network Director is a full lifecycle management tool for unified vision and control of the network wired and wireless infrastructure, users and services. Encompassing both wired and wireless for enterprise customers in both the campus and data center domains, Junos Space Network Director provides a single pane of glass management solution enabling cost-effective delivery of high performance and high availability network services.

Key features and benefits include:

Operation simplicity help you shift from maintaining to innovating

Less human error with guided, wizard based tasks

Fast and simple deployment with profile based approach by logical, location or device grouping

Junos Space Service Now

Junos Space Service Now is a remote, automated troubleshooting client that enables Juniper to quickly identify a problem in the customer’s network to achieve a 40% increase in Day 1 issue resolution. Used by both enterprises and service providers, Junos Space Service Now creates an incident detection system by performing automated diagnostic data collection on first occurrence of an issue. The information collected from devices, via the Junos Space Network Management Platform, is presented in an easily accessible format that automates and speeds troubleshooting and ultimately the resolution of problems.

Junos Space Service Insight

Junos Space Service Insight helps you reduce network downtime by delivering proactive bug notifications specific to your network configuration, and thorough automated end-of-life/support analysis where you can do complete EOL auditing across 100’s of devices in seconds. Used by both enterprises and service providers, Junos Space Service Insight works seamlessly with Junos Space Service Now to deliver targeted bug notifications, identify which network devices could potentially be impacted, and perform impact analyses for EOL/EOS notifications.

End of life impact analysis to reduce the risk of running unsupported hardware or software in networks

Ability to automate scanning for impact of bug notifications, which saves time in risk assessment and exposure to known issues, improves uptime, and reduces the risk of downtime due to known issues

User and systems notifications of new bugs and end of life that helps you configure notification policy to alert users or other tools/systems about new proactive bug notifications or end of life notifications received

Employs the automation capabilities embedded in the Juniper Networks Junos operating system to deliver an early warning system that detects errors in devices and collects required diagnostic data for analysis and troubleshooting

Provides a uniform solution that can scale to all devices running Junos OS

Presents information collected in an easily accessible format that automates and speeds troubleshooting and ultimately the resolution of problems

Simplifies operational processes and increases operational efficiency with the ability to open cases with Juniper Networks

Technical Assistance Center (JTAC) from the Junos Space Service Now console, and by sending the necessary information to JTAC to quickly and effectively identify and resolve problems

Provides a centralized platform that stores and tracks detected incidents, maintains the troubleshooting information collected, and tracks the status of associated cases escalated to JTAC

Saves time by automating time-consuming manual tasks such as asset inventory details

Junos Space Security Director

Junos Space Security Director helps organizations improve the reach, ease, and accuracy of security policy administration with a scalable, GUI based management application. Used by both enterprises and service providers, it helps administrators more quickly and intuitively manage all phases of security policy lifecycle, from policy creation to remediation, through one centralized web-based interface.

Key features and benefits include:

Fast and easy enforcement of security state across the endto-end network

Quick, easy translation of business policies into network configuration with minimal manual intervention

Rapid deployment of thousands of devices with minimal user intervention and truck rolls

Topology view of the network for fully automated visualization and configuration of security devices

Building Network Applications with Junos Space SDK

For companies that want to extract value from their network and deliver on solutions that truly work for their business, Junos Space is the platform of choice. You can create and deploy custom management applications using our programmable interface. Junos Space improves network agility by providing a SDK toolkit and APIs both at the platform and application level for a complete customized solution so you can meet the specific needs of your business or internal procedures.

The Junos Space SDK provides a complete rapid application development framework that includes a common infrastructure, a software development kit (SDK) with prebuilt core services and widgets to allow easy user interface prototyping, and standards based APIs for third-party application integration. Using the Juniper Networks Junos Space SDK, users have the option of developing different classes of applications such as mashups, customized business process workflows, or native applications.

The Junos Space Network Management Platform and its Open APIs provide RESTful access to all Junos-based devices, serving as a single entry point that abstracts your network to enable you to manage, monitor, control and gather insight across your entire network infrastructure.

And, by using Junos Space SDK, you can utilize your investment in existing OSS/BSS solutions to manage, monitor and control the network. Plus, you’ll be able to access network data streams and insight to proactively manage, monitor and simplify management of your complex network.

Learn Junos Space with Junosphere

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